WEDNESDAY, 27th AUGUST, 1884. 



The President, C. S. Wilkinson, Esq., F.G.S., F.L.S., in the chair. 



Dr. Otto Finsch was introduced as a visitor. 



The President announced that, at the last Meeting of the 

 Council, F. Jeffrey Bell, Esq., M.A., Professor of Comparative 

 Anatomy at King's College, London, had been elected a Corres- 

 ponding Member of the Society ; and that the following gentlemen 

 had been elected to decide upon the merits of the Essays 

 on the Life History of the Bacillus of Typhoid Fever, for 

 which a prize had been offered by the Society : — Dr. H. N. 

 MacLaurin, Dr. C. K. Mackellar, W. A. Haswell, Esq., M.A., 

 B.Sc, J. J. Fletcher, Esq., M.A., B.Sc, and the Honorary 

 Secretaries, Professor W. J. Stephens, M.A., F.G.S., and the Hon. 

 William Macleay, F.L.S. 



DONATIONS. 



" Revision of the North American Poriferse." By Alpheus 

 Hyatt. Parts I. and II., 4to, 1875 and 1877. "Proceedings of 

 the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia." Part I., 1882. 

 " Bulletin de la Societe Imperiale des Naturalistes de Moscow. - ' 

 Tome LIIL, No. 4, 1878 ; Tome LIV., Nos. 3 and 4, 1879. " Pro- 

 ceedings of the Second Congress of Russian Naturalists at Moscow 

 from 20th to 30th August, 1863. Parts 1 and 2, 4to, 1871. 

 From Dr, R. von Lendenfeld. 



